Episodes from The Surfer's Journal - Great Waves

In this edition of The Surfer's Journal, we look closely at Pipeline on Oahu's North Shore. Kelly Slater remembers both the pleasure and the pressure of winning the 1995 world title in flawless surf...

Australia's Narrabeen is famous less for its surf, and more for its personality and character, as well as the astounding number of good surfers it has produced. A Sydney suburb, Narrabeen has been at...

This special edition of the Surfer's Journal looks at the prime surfing destination of Jeffrey's Bay in South Africa. Randy Rarick remembers standing on the point at Jeffrey's during a 10' swell and...

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This edition of the Surfer's Journal delves deep into the California surfing experience, including the passionate, doomed relationship between Miki Dora and Malibu. Throughout the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of surfers fanned out across the state coastline, riding waves and having a great time. Surfing was born in Hawai'i, but raised in California. This is where it was glamorized, industrialized, packaged, marketed and sold. Hollywood put surfing on the big screen. Capital Records helped make it the soundtrack for teenage baby-boomers. The surf media was invented here. California, in other words, corrupted the sport -- even as it helped it develop and evolve.

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